Cloud-native applications are developed specifically for modern cloud platforms. They are designed and built to maximally exploit the benefits offered by cloud computing. This comprises several aspects, such as a fine-grained modular architecture, using existing cloud services instead of custom solutions, exploiting the rapid elasticity of cloud computing, achieving robustness by distributing an application over independent nodes, and finally a faster and more agile development process through the fast and on-demand availability of resources in the cloud.
The goal of this project is to analyze how the development of such cloud-native applications can be supported and improved with regard to the already mentioned aspects. The focus is on the overarching architecture of a cloud-native application, specifically how the individual components are operated, combined, and how they interact, rather than focusing on individual components.

To make the envisioned quality model practically applicable, a suited tool-support is essential. Therefore, a prototypical implementation of tooling should accompany the project. The tooling should enable the modeling of cloud-native software architectures so that based on such architectural models, quality evaluations using the envisioned quality model are possible. A high degree of automation should be a core aspect for such tooling to reduce the usage overhead. And additionally, the integration with other established tools and framework should be possible to increase their practical value.